A blue and white porcelain beaker vase
Kangxi Period
Painted in shades of brilliant cobalt blue with scenes of an official receiving gifts from the empress and her household officials and of a scholar at leisure in his garden, both accompanied by poems and separated by flowering branches encircling the vase's mid-section, the base bearing a six-character Ming Chenghua mark inscribed within a double ring.
Height 17 3/8in (44cm)